2. At 211° water is hot.
At 212° it boils.
And with boiling water, comes steam.
And with steam, you can power a train.
One degree more = Exponential results
3. "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
Helen Keller (1880-1968)
4. "Knowing when to keep your mouth shut
is invariably more important than
opening it at the right time."
Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990)
5. "One who fears failure limits his activities."
Henry Ford (1863-1947)
6. "Even if you're on the right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there."
Will Rogers (1879-1935)
7. "The secret of success in life
is for a man to be ready for his opportunity
when it comes."
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
8. "Success is going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm."
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
9. "I don't believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in this world are the
people who get up and look for the
circumstances they want, and,
if they can't find them, make them."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
10. "I'm a great believer in luck,
and I find the harder I work,
the more I have of it."
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
11. "Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
12. "Leaders aren't born, they are made.
And they are made just like anything else,
through hard work."
Vince Lombardi (1913-1970)
13. "You cannot escape the responsibility of
tomorrow by evading it today."
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
14. "Hard work spotlights the character of
people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn
up their noses and some don't turn up at all."
Sam Ewing (1920-2001)
15. "The mere fact that you have obstacles to
overcome is in your favor."
Robert Collier (1885-1950)
16. "The will to win is important,
but the will to prepare is vital."
Joe Paterno (1926- )
17. "Think of yourself as on the threshold of
unparalleled success.
A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you.
Achieve! Achieve!"
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)
18. "The most valuable of all talents is that of
never using two words when one will do."
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
19. "Trust your own instinct.
Your mistakes might as well be your own,
instead of someone else’s."
Billy Wilder (1906-2002)
20. "Example is not the main thing in influencing
others. It is the only thing."
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
21. "Try not to become a man of success but
rather try to become a man of value."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
22. "When fascism comes to America, it will
be wrapped in the American flag."
Huey Long (1860 – 1913)
23. "Courage is not the absence of fear, but the
capacity to act despite our fears."
John McCain (1936- )
24. "The big rewards come to those who
travel the second, undemanded mile."
Bruce Barton (1886-1967)
25. "The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials."
Chinese Proverb
26. "Roll with the punches.
Tomorrow is another day."
Dicky Fox
27. "If you don't risk anything,
you risk even more."
Erica Jong (1942 - )
28. "Vitality shows
not only in the ability to persist,
but in the ability to start over."
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
29. "Opportunity is missed by most people,
because it is dressed in overalls and looks like
work."
Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
30. "It is amazing what can be accomplished
when nobody cares about who gets the
credit."
Robert Yates (1943- )
NASCAR racing team owner
31. "Tell me and I forget.
Teach me and I remember.
Involve me and I learn."
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
32. "Life is not easy for any of us.
But what of that?
We must have perseverance and...
confidence in ourselves."
Marie Curie (1867-1934)
33. "Change is the law of life,
and those who look only to the past and
present are certain to miss the future."
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
36. "I believe life is a series of near misses.
A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at
all. It's seizing the day and accepting
responsibility for your future."
Howard Schultz (1952 - )
37. "There's only one way to succeed in anything,
and that is to give it everything."
Vince Lombardi (1913-1970)
38. "There's nothing like biting off more than you
can chew, and then chewing anyway."
Mark Burnett (1960- )
39. "Find a need and fill it."
Ruth Stafford Peale (1906 - 2008 )
40. "In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
41. I realized that selling is the greatest career a
man could want.
Willy Loman
42. "It is not the strongest of the species
that survive, nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change."
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
43. "Success is often achieved by those who don't
know that failure is inevitable."
Coco Chanel (1883-1971)
44. "The fruits of life fall into the hands of those
who climb the tree and pick them."
Earl Tupper (1907-1983)
Tupperware inventor
45. "The work never is done,
while the power to work remains."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935)
46. "He who overcomes others has force;
he who overcomes himself is strong."
Lao-tzu (570-490bc)
47. "The difference between a successful person
and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack
of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."
Vince Lombardi (1913-1970)
48. "You see things, and you say, 'Why?'
But I dream things that never were and say,
'Why not?'"
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
49. "Singleness of purpose is one of the chief
essentials for success in life."
John D. Rockefeller (1874-1960)
50. "The wisest men follow their own direction."
Euripides (480-406bc)
51. "It is a bad carpenter who quarrels with his
tools. It is a bad general who blames his men
for faulty workmanship."
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
52. "Destiny is not a matter of chance,
it's a matter of choice;
it's not a thing to be waited for,
but a thing to be achieved."
William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)
53. "Logic and over-analysis can immobilize and
sterilize an idea. It's like love-- the more you
analyze it, the faster it disappears."
William Bernbach (1911-1982)
54. "If you're not making mistakes,
then you're not doing anything."
John Wooden (1910- )
55. "Deal with the world the way it is,
not the way you wish it was."
John Chambers (1949 - )
CEO of Cisco Systems
57. "Nothing else can quite substitute for a few
well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of
praise.
They're absolutely free–
and worth a fortune."
Sam Walton (1918-1992)
58. “Leadership is demonstrated at the moment
of need. You learn to be a leader by acting, by
doing."
Carlos Ghosn (1954 - )
59. "In three words I can sum up everything
I've learned about life:
It goes on."
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
60. "I try to learn from the past,
but I plan for the future by focusing
exclusively on the present."
Donald Trump (1946 - )
61. "There is only one thing that makes a dream
impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."
Paulo Coelho (1947- )
62. "If we did all the things we are capable of
doing, we would literally astound ourselves."
Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
63. "Today is a new day.
You will get out of it just what you put into
it..."
Mary Pickford (1893-1979)
64. "Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?"
Frank Scully (1892-1964)
65. "A man must make his opportunity,
as oft as find it."
Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
66. "Hard work has made it easy.
That is my secret.
That is why I win."
Nadia Comaneci (1961 - )
67. "There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work and learning from failure."
Colin L. Powell (1937- )
68. "It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
Walt Disney (1901-1966)
69. "Far and away the best prize that life offers is
the chance to work hard at something worth
doing."
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
70. “What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within
us.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
71. "There ain't no rules around here.
We're trying to accomplish something."
Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
72. "If you want to achieve widespread impact
and lasting value, be bold."
Howard Schultz (1954 - )
Chairman of Starbucks Coffee
73. "We are continually faced by great
opportunities brilliantly disguised as
insoluble problems."
Lee Iacocca (1924 - )
74. "I want to stay as close to the edge as I can
without going over. Out on the edge you see
all kinds of things you can't see from the
center."
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922 - )
75. "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every
opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity
in every difficulty."
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
76. "Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance,
you must keep moving."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
77. "The task of a leader is to get his people from
where they are to where they have not been."
Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
78. "The future depends entirely on what each of
us does every day."
Gloria Steinem (1944 - )
79. "Don't judge each day by the harvest you
reap, but by the seeds you plant."
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
83. "Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a
trail."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
84. "In any moment of decision the best thing you
can do is the right thing,
the next best thing is the wrong thing,
and the worst thing you can do is nothing."
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
85. "Unless a man undertakes more than he
possibly can do, he will never do all that he
can."
Henry Drummond (1851-1897)
86. "The man who does things makes mistakes,
but he never makes the biggest mistake of all
-- doing nothing."
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
87. "In the long run, we shape our lives, and we
shape ourselves... the choices we make are
ultimately our own responsibility."
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
88. "Man is the only creature that strives to
surpass himself, and yearns for the
impossible."
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
89. "You have to expect things of yourself before
you can do them."
Michael Jordan (1963 - )
90. "Never let the fear of striking out
get in your way."
Babe Ruth (1895-1948)
91. "Failure is only an opportunity
to begin again more intelligently."
Henry Ford (1863-1947)
92. "Only those who will risk going too far can
possibly find out how far one can go."
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
93. "When you achieve one dream,
dream another."
Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger (1948 - )
113. "There is only one boss, THE CUSTOMER.
And she can fire everybody in the company
from the chairman on down, simply by
spending her money somewhere else."
Sam Walton (1918–1992)
114. "We are far too easily pleased."
C.S. Lewis (1898–1963)
115. "You may be disappointed if you fail,
but you are doomed if you don't try."
Beverly Sills (1929-2007)
116. “I never failed once. It just happened to be a
2000 step process."
Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
117. “Any job you are given is an opportunity to
prove yourself."
Meg Whitman (1956- )
118. “The only thing that separates the successful
people from the ones who aren't is the
willingness to work very very hard."
Helen Gurley Brown (1922- )
119. “Never give in, never give in, never, never,
never."
Sir Winston Churchill(1874 - 1965)
120. “Time is limited so I better wake up every
morning fresh and know that I have just one
chance to live this particular day right and
string my days together into a life of action
and purpose."
Lance Armstrong (1971- )
121. “Work is love made visible."
Kahlil Gibran(1883- 1931)
122. “The time is always right to do what is right."
Martin Luther King(1929 - 1968)
184. “A brave man thinks no one superior who
does him injury; for make himself superior to
the other by forgiveness.”
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
185. “Never let your memories be greater than
your dreams.”
Doug Ivester (1947 - )
186. “One should guard against preaching to
young people success in the customary form
as the main aim in life. The most important
motive for work in school and in life is
pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and
the knowledge of the value of the result to the
community.”
Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)
187. “What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within
us.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
188. “Smile well and often, it makes people
wonder what you've been up to.”
Satchel Paige (1906 – 1982)
189. “If everything seems under control, you're
just not going fast enough.”
Mario Andretti (1940 – )
190. “Our patience will achieve more than our
force.”
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797)
192. “God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 – 1861)
193. “What the caterpillar calls the end,
the rest of the world calls a butterfly.”
Lao Tsu
194. “We are cups, constantly and quietly being
filled. The trick is knowing how to tip
ourselves over and let the Beautiful Stuff out.”
Ray Bradbury (1920 - )
195. “Reflect upon your blessings, of which every
man has plenty, not on your past misfortunes,
of which all men have some.”
Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870)
196. “The life given us by nature is short,
but the memory of a life well spent is eternal.”
Cicero (106BC – 43BC)
197. “Life is too short to be small.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804 – 1881)
198. “It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our
powers, but for powers equal to our tasks.”
Helen Keller (1880 – 1968)
199. “To educate yourself for the feeling of
gratitude means to take nothing for granted,
but to always seek out and value the kindness
that stands behind the action. Nothing that is
done for you is a matter of course. Everything
originates in a will for the good, which is
directed at you. Train yourself never to put
off the word or action for the expression of
gratitude.”
Albert Schweitzer (1875 – 1965)
200. “The great French Marshall Lyautey once
asked his gardener to plant a tree. The
gardener objected that the tree was slow
growing and would not reach maturity for
100 years. The Marshall replied, ‘In that case,
there is no time to lose. Plant it this
afternoon!’”
John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963)
201. “Develop serenity and quiet attitudes through
your conversation. Depending upon the
words we use and the tone in which we use
them, we can talk ourselves into being
nervous, high-strung, and upset. By our
speech, we can also achieve quiet reactions.
Talk peaceful to be peaceful.”
Norman Vincent Peale (1898 – 1993)
202. “The real glory is being knocked to your
knees and then coming back. That's real
glory. That's the essence of it.”
Vince Lombardi (1913-1970)
204. “When you get in a tight place and everything
goes against you, till it seems as though you
could not hold on a minute longer, never give
up then, for that is just the place and time that
the tide will turn.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896)
205. “Let's cease thinking of our accomplishments,
our wants. Let's try to figure out the other
man's good points. Then forget flattery. Give
honest, sincere appreciation. Be "hearty in
your approbation and lavish in your praise,"
and people will cherish your words and
treasure them and repeat them over a
lifetime -- repeat them years after you have
forgotten them.”
Dale Carnegie
206. “Faith is to believe what you do not yet see;
the reward for this faith is to see what you
believe.”
St. Augustine
207. “Success is never permanent,
and failure is never final.”
Mike Ditka
208. “There should be less talk. . . .
What do you do then?
Take a broom and clean someone's house.
That says enough.”
Mother Theresa
209. “Forget past mistakes.
Forget failures.
Forget everything except what you're going
to do now and do it.”
William Durant
(founder of General Motors)
210. “Don't judge each day by the harvest you
reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
211. “If I were asked to give what I consider the
single most useful bit of advice for all
humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as
an inevitable part of life, and when it comes,
hold your head high. Look it squarely in the
eye, and say, "I will be bigger than you. You
cannot defeat me.”
Ann Landers
212. “I have had dreams and I have had
nightmares, but I have conquered my
nightmares because of my dreams.”
Dr. Jonas Salk
213. “Remember, if you ever need a helping hand,
you'll find one at the end of your arm. . . . As
you grow older you will discover that you
have two hands. One for helping yourself, the
other for helping others.”
Audrey Hepburn
214. “It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept
anything but the very best you will very often
get it.”
W. Somerset Maugham
215. “If we want a free and peaceful world, if we
want to make the deserts bloom and man
grow to greater dignity as a human being --
we can do it.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
216. “I try to avoid looking forward or backward,
and try to keep looking upward.”
Charlotte Bronte
217. “Never measure the height of a mountain,
until you have reached the top. Then you will
see how low it was.”
Dag Hammarskjold
221. No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is
ever too big.
Unknown Author
222. “No executive has ever suffered because his
subordinates were strong and effective.”
Peter Drucker
223. “No man who is enthusiastic about his work
has anything to fear from life.”
Samuel Goldwyn
224. “No one can defeat us unless we first defeat
ourselves.”
Dwight Eisenhower
225. No rules for success will work if you don't.
Unknown Author
226. “Nobody can be successful if he doesn't love
his work, love his job.”
David Sarnoff
227. “Twenty years from now you will be more
disappointed by the things you didn't do than
by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain
228. “Unless you try to do something beyond what
you have already mastered, you will never
grow.”
Ronald E. Osborn
229. “Use what talents you possess; the woods
would be very silent if no birds sang there
except those that sang best.”
Henry Van Dyke
231. “Warriors take chances.
Like everyone else, they fear failing,
but they refuse to let fear control them.”
Ancient Samurai saying
232. “We are hoarding potentials so great that
they are just about unimaginable.”
Jack Schwartz
233. “We are not in a position in which we have
nothing to work with. We already have
capacities, talents, direction, missions, and
callings.”
Abraham H. Maslow
234. .
“We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
Aristotle
235. “What counts is not necessarily the size of the
dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the
dog.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
236. “What you do off the job is determining factor
in how far you will go on the job.”
Zig Ziglar
237. “The minute you settle for less than you
deserve, you get even less than you settled
for.”
Maureen Dowd
238. “I would rather be a superb meteor, every
atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy
and permanent planet. The proper function of
a man is to live, not to exist.”
Jack London
239. “Never look down on anybody unless you're
helping him up.”
Jesse Jackson
240. “There are risks and costs to a
program of action. But they are far
less than the long-range risks and
costs of comfortable inaction.”
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963)
241. “All you have to do is look straight and see the
road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at
it - walk.”
Ayn Rand (1905–1982)